A collaborative team of researchers has identified two previously unknown circoviruses in short-finned pilot whales and orcas ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

After years of failed searches, one of the planet’s rarest whales has finally been spotted in the wild. The race to encounter the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whales began back in 2020 after ...

A research trip along the coast of Baja California, Mexico, led to a world first. Scientists from Oregon State University and the U.S. military's Naval Information Warfare Center were aboard the ...

It's the first recorded death of a humpback whale due to entanglement with a rock lobster pot buoy rope in New Zealand.

Frédérik Saltré receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Emma Betty, Karen A Stockin, and Katharina J. Peters do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

A breakthrough discovery off the coast of Baja California in June 2024 has stunned the scientific community. A rare species of beaked whale, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, was seen alive for the ...

Groundbreaking research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean’s surface are not immune from the burden of toxic forever chemicals, with whales and dolphins showing ...